“Christian Bale (as Cheney) is looking very intently at Sam Rockwell (as George Bush) and that’s one level of the conversation,” Corwin explained in one interview. That set-up is also a key scene in the film. Vice suggests that George Bush invited Dick Cheney to be Vice President and they negotiated so that Cheney ends up with all the power with Bush not bright enough to realise what he’s agreed to. Source: Matt Kennedy / Annapurna Pictures 2018 © Annapurna Pictures, LLC. “Indulging in propaganda”: Christian Bale and Amy Adams as Dick and Lynne Cheney in Vice Both films tackle heavyweight political topics and could easily be rendered dull and leaden in the wrong hands. Vice is Hank Corwin’s (ACE) second film for director Adam McKay following The Big Short, a satire about the financial crisis. You never know – one little inflection of an actor’s eyelid could influence the way I cut a scene.” “I want to know when I go to bed that I used the best of the best takes that I could find. “I am a huge fan of watching every frame of all dailies before I cut anything,” he says. “That took a lot of multi-track work to finesse. “As amazing as Queen’s music is they wrote it to be an interactive experience with an audience so the music doesn’t really soar until you hear the audience sing along, applaud and clap,” explains Ottman. Guitarist Brian May sourced the band’s original recordings for use in the sound mix for which Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali are Oscar nominated alongside John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone for sound editing. But we were in constant struggle with the studio to cut things out mainly because the studio is always concerned about run time.” Once they’d agreed the script Queen weren’t involved editorially that much. “This was a ten-year saga for producers getting approval for every little thing in the script. “It fills the purpose of what underscore would have done but makes it more intelligent in that it’s not done with the score, which would have been typical,” he says.Ĭharges that the film glosses over Mercury’s true rock and roll lifestyle don’t seem to have impacted its success. In the end it was decided to stick to Queen’s extensive back catalogue “to keep it pure”, although Ottman embellished a couple of the more emotional scenes with opera, such as when Mercury proposes to Mary. Singer also hired him as composer with the assumption that Bohemian Rhapsody was going to have an underscore. Ottman’s dual career as a composer mainly on Singer’s films including The Usual Suspects, X-Men 2, Superman Returns and Valkyrie made him a natural choice to edit a musical. “He’s more worried that if he directs me he might not discover things about the story that I’d create when left to my own devices.” “Bryan wasn’t really there in post but then that’s fine because he likes to give me my space to cut a film anyway,” Ottman said. The film is also a triumph of sorts for Ottman who quietly had to battle 20 th Century Fox’s intrusion on the final cut and the firing of director and regular collaborator Bryan Singer two thirds through filming.Ĭast and crew were at pains to avoid talking about Singer during the film’s promotion for fear that it would become the main story. “We tell it in a down to earth fashion with nothing hyper real about it except for the concert pieces.
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